Living Streets ‘will show that route is safe’
Monday 23rd August 2010, 11:30AM BST.
The start of the walk leading from the Pitronnerie Road industrial estate. 1010738
LIVING STREETS is to demonstrate the safety of its new Baubigny Schools walking route to the media and islanders.
Following criticism from businesses at Pitronnerie Road Industrial Estate, the road safety group offered the Guernsey Press a tour during the morning rush hour.
It has also invited islanders on a separate tour of the route next Monday, which is a bank holiday.
Companies based at Pitronnerie Road claim that children would put their lives at risk by cutting through the industrial estate.
* The public tour will start at 10am. Meet behind The Bowl where parking is available.
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Just a thought but I doubt that the owners of the Pitronnerie Road have given permission for this – it’s a (very busy) private road with no public right of way over it.
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Pitronnerie road itself is not private but the lane through to the track probably is
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I have worked in the industrial estate for over 11 years, and have used the lane that goes from the bowl to the estate on my push bike during that time. In the winter months,at 7-7.30 am, it
can be covered in big puddles, dog poo, and broken glass from drink bottles. Also cows are
moved from fields on both sides, so you get cow poo too! We all know that children will leave home
earlier than the times anticipated by “Living Streets” to walk the route, so how they will negotiate these hazards, in the dark is any body’s guess. Also when they leave school for home
it will again be darkening. Coupled with the fact that parents might want to drop their children in the vicinity of this lane, in the early morning, across a car park that is Terre a L’Amende, with fork lifts operating, and many vehicle movements into the adjoining car parks seems to me, a risk too far. Has a risk assesmment been carried out by Living Streets over a longer period than 4 days? are street lights going to be installed in this lane, there are no pavements in the industrial estate, because it is an industrial estate. I hope no children use this short cut, for their own safety.
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Nan it’s not a problem just turn the estate in to a precinct during school hours….
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Isn’t next Monday a Bank Holiday? It’s not exactly going to be indicative of a normal working day, even if it was a working day it would be a pointless exercise anyway as by 1000 all the little darlings would already be at school. Something else planned with no thought at all. Fairly par for the course.
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